After Hurricane Katrina hit five years ago, Donnell Bailey was displaced to Houston. There, the 10-year-old was placed in a national charter school known as KIPP. At first, Donnell acted out. But eventually, he turned his behavior around -- and when he moved back to Louisiana, he was placed in another KIPP school, which eventually recommended him to a private school. Now, Donnell is a sophomore at the Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie, La., and is class president.
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Edward and Lavinia Fitzgerald in Savannah, Ga., have dinner while telecaregiver Denise Cady of ResCare, a camera monitoring service, looks on.
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Andrew Lowenthal (left) receives his $50 gift card from Red Velvet Cupcakery employee Lauren Knight at the company's store in Washington, D.C. More than 2,000 customers purchased the cards for $25 through a deal with LivingSocial.
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An opponent of an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned near ground zero in Lower Manhattan holds a sign during a demonstration Sunday in New York. Activists both for and against the proposed Park51 project rallied supporters near the proposed building site.
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